Recent content by Kevcorbett

I speak from experience with a large laptop user base who are out of the office quite a lot. If all you have in your organisation are desktops then yes forcing the discovery should be enough.

Sorry for not replying sooner - hectic week back after a week off!! I've only done some very quick testing so far but it seems to do what it says on the tin. The interface isn't pretty and there are not many options. I will let you know once I have done more testing but so far I have been...

Providing all the PC's already report to the existing server you can just change the distribution policy for the pc's and set it to the new server (as cmeagan656 said). For this to happen though all clients will need to have the phone home server set to the current server. If not you can roll...

Last thing to try and then I'm out of ideas. In the registry browse to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\SERVICES\MNMDD make sure/change the "start" key is set to "1" if not final thing.... ....long shot but http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q175956

It also relies on Plug and Play and users need read and write access to Nmcom.dll. It has been known previously that permissions can get "screwed" on the file for some reason. Try these steps. * Open the Services window and ensure that both NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing and Plug and Play...

By default the Service that enables this is set to manual.... ...check to see if the "NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing" service is started.

You could always look at scheduled tasks (under control panel) they will allow you to schedule a task to start every-time the system starts up - you can also select the user account to run it under. Have a look but let me know if you need any more details.

Look up McAfee Endpoint Encryption (used to be safeboot). I use it on a user-base of 1500 and it seems to perform well.

I'm on leave this week but when I get back I will be using the kernel tool (bought it just before my leave started) to do a small migration. When I have used it I can give you a bit more information on it.